Prolonged Natural Deferment of Hatching in Killifish
Abstract
The drying up of flooded lowlands stranded eggs of Fundulus confluentus, which were unhatched and viable after as much as 3 months' exposure. The eggs were found in the moist plant debris on the soil surface. When ovigerous sods were immersed in tap water, normal fish hatched within 15 to 30 minutes.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- December 1958
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.128.3337.1511
- Bibcode:
- 1958Sci...128.1511H